Getting my Widows Phone 8.1 on
Getting rid of social notifications
For a while now I have been pretty bothered by all the notifications i receive from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in particular. Despite all kinds of filters I am getting more and more tired of beng bombarded with emails urging me to stop what I’m doing and go look at…whatever.
The first social network to get the make over over Twitter. So without further ado I present to you a settings page without any enabled notifications.
And here’s LinkedIn, or at least a small part of it.
New HTC One render
Neowin just posted a render of the upcoming HTC One running Windows Phone 8.1. I think this looks really really nice, and I would definitely consider this over a new Lumia.
Getting my Lenovo on
A couple of weeks ago my old trusty desktop PC died. I ended up up buying a Lenovo U430, which I had been looking at for a while.
The machine has some pretty good specs, but notably lacks an SSD drive, which I guess I have to add eventually. Of course, it has no CD drive, so I will have to get Windows on there in some other way.
As it turns out, I never ever use the touch screen, mainly because I don’t want to amke the screen dirty, but since the trackpad supports muliti gestures pretty well, I don’t really need the touch screen. The screen itself has pretty bas viewing angles, but nothing that I cannot live with.
The one thing that has surprised me, is how much I use the metro environment. I think metro is better for touch, but it offers me a lot of opportunity to connect to my work accounts such as Exchange and Lync easily, so I find myself using quite a bit these days.
That being said, I am not sure I really get the whole dual environment thing as I have multiple apps that do the same thing. Mail and Skype are good examples.
Google Bank?
Google won’t launch a traditional bank because of the associated costs and regulation, but these hurdles won’t stop the firm from redefining the future of financial services, according to a new Forrester report.
The report, written by Forrester analyst Oliwia Berdak, postulates that Google will likely become a financial services hub that facilitates the relationship between the consumers and providers of financial services, causing disruption in four areas: payments, money management, product comparisons, and financial advice.
“Google’s reputation as one of the most disruptive firms in the market, have left many digital financial services executives worried about a potential new rival: Google Bank,” writes Berdak, in a blog post. “Unfortunately, they’re asking the wrong questions.”
Source: Finextra
No so much it would seem.